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Fady Rizkalla

Cluster Marketing & Digital Manager - "Cairo & Upper Egypt Hotels" at Sofitel "Cairo & Upper Egypt" - Accor worldwide

Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Group Marketing ManagerFull Time

    Smartverse

    Nov 2022 - Present -2 yrs, 8 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Launched the company's rebranding phases, including but not limited to BTL, ATL, digital, and communications. • Continually identify and improve the company and its subsidiaries positioning and core customer segments. • Come up with innovative, customer-driven marketing campaigns for all Smartverse companies and its products which covers the segments of retail, FMCG, agriculture, oil, and smart distribution. • Supervise preparation of the budget, revenue and expenses forecasts, determine the marketing budget and ensure the budget is not exceeded. • Follow the company's KPIs and meet/ exceed the financial targets by the end of the quarter or financial year.
  • Marketing ManagerFull Time

    ECS ... " Energy and Contracting Solutions"

    Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 -1 yr, 7 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Digital Duties & Responsibilities:  Plans, directs, and coordinates the marketing of the organization's projects and/or services.  Leads a team of branding specialist, events planners and advertising specialists to create high-traffic blog content, lead-converting resources, and shareable creative projects/events.  Supports marketing stakeholders, including demand generation, sales enablement, public and analyst relations, community management, and channels/verticals.  Craft and maintains the company brand, including messaging, tone, design, and public and analyst relations.  Establishes marketing goals to ensure share of market and profitability of products and/or services.  Develops and executes marketing plans and programs, both short and long range, to ensure the profit growth and expansion of company products and/or services.  Plans and oversees the organization's advertising and promotion activities including print, electronic, and direct mail outlets.  Communicates with outside advertising agencies on ongoing campaigns.  Works with writers and artists and oversees copywriting, design, layout, paste-up, and production of promotional materials.  Develops and recommends pricing strategy for new and on-going projects which will result in the greatest share of the market over the long run.  Manage and develop all ATL & BTL campaigns.  Recommends changes in basic structure and organization of marketing group to ensure the effective fulfillment of objectives assigned to it and provide the flexibility to move swiftly in relation to marketing problems and opportunities.  Prepares marketing activity reports.
  • Cluster Marketing & Digital Manager - "Cairo & Upper Egypt Hotels"Full Time

    Sofitel "Cairo & Upper Egypt" - Accor worldwide

    Jul 2019 - Present -6 yrs

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Digital Duties & Responsibilities:  Plan and execute all digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns  Design, build and maintain our social media presence in coordination with the 3rd party tool.  Measure and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)  Identify trends and insights, and optimize spend and performance based on the insights  Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies  Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests  Collaborate with internal teams to create landing pages and optimize user experience  Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points  Instrument conversion points and optimize user funnels  Collaborate with agencies and other vendor partners  Evaluate emerging technologies. Provide thought leadership and perspective for adoption where appropriate  Handle the email marketing with the third party tool Marketing Duties & Responsibilities:  Managing all marketing for the company/Hotel and activities within the marketing department.  Developing the marketing strategy for the company/Hotel in line with corporate objectives.  Co-ordinating marketing campaigns with sales activities.  Overseeing the company’s/Hotel’s marketing budget.  Planning and implementing promotional campaigns.  Manage and improve lead generation campaigns, measuring results.  Overall responsibility for brand management and corporate identity  Creating a wide range of different marketing materials.  Working closely with design agencies and assisting with new product launches.  Maintain effective internal communications to ensure that all relevant company functions are kept informed of marketing objectives.  Analyzing potential strategic partner relationships for company/Hotel marketing.
  • Group Marketing ManagerFull Time

    El Mahdy for investment and Tourism projects “ Properties and Excursions”

    Oct 2018 - Jun 2019 -8 months

    Egypt

    • Job Details:Duties & Responsibilities:  Develop all global strategic and tactical marketing initiatives and plans.  Create and implement marketing/media plans that include print, online, video, trade shows and social networking opportunities.  Create and write branded advertising campaigns.  Conduct market research to identify effective promotional methods, negotiate media contracts, and follow up on outsourced marketing agencies production.  Create and enhance new media opportunities (print, events, online, advertorials), negotiate rates, and book space.  Develop, write and maintain internal and external communication actions and follow up on outsourced PR agencies activities.  Manage and ensure that all hotel materials are aligned with branding guidelines across all relevant platforms and all hotel departments.  Develop and follow all the hotel materials and products such as videos, content for both website and social media.  Develop the hotel website and all other third parties business to create revenue in coordination with the E-Commerce team.  Review and reply all the hotel reviews, and communicate with the different departments to enhance our services and increase the guest satisfaction  Develop the hotel loyalty program.
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Commerce

      Cairo University (CU)

      Jan 2002 - Jan 2005 - 3 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      The Nile School

      Jan 2001 

    Achievements

    Through translating the technical specs of a product to the language my audience identifies with, I have led a 15 years successful career in marketing and communications across a varied array of sectors. Across, hospitality, heavy industries, manufacturing, media, contracting, energy and power sectors, my strength lies in a meticulous study of the product in hand to highlight the unique selling points that taps into the end user needs whether in a B2B or B2C context.

    Skills

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
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